Although I was doing video here are some stills from the marches on Saturday.
The morning march was quite peacefull and and as it tunred out quite fun too.
The afternoon march mas a different affair. Although there was no violence the tone was different. The young paramilitary wing of the Sandinistas where out in force. Armed with homemade mortars. Still quite scary.
All Photos Tomas Stargardter
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European Parlamentarians, the dutch Johanees Cornelis Van Baalen and the Spaniard Josep Soler where the victims of government media apparatchiks when during a press conference given by the two, it was hijacked by the government stooges and had insults thrown at the parlamentarians. Both men accompanied by Nicaraguan politician Eduardo Montealegre leader of the opposition , soldiered on with the press conference but when it was over mayhem broke loose as the government media increased the intensity of their verbal attacks. Montealegre used himslef as bait to decoy the Orteguista party media and allow Van Baalen a clean exit. Van Baalen who was in Nicaragua to help broker a deal with the liberal party factions in order to help them put up a united front for the next elections, was accused by the Sandinista government of meddling in national affairs. The Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Manuel Coronel Kautz ordered his expulsion and called Holland a "paisucho", a despective term. Van Baalen left the country with Soler, unmolested but promised to return to Nicaragua if invited back by the liberals.
Last night as we worked hard on our deadlines after a violent day in the streets of Managua, our Sandinista friends payed us a visit. They shot home made mortars and showered rocks on us. Couple of broken windows and shaky nerves.
Daniel Ortega at the 30th anniversary of the Nicaraguan Police force. (reminds me of somebody... Photos Tomas Stargardter - Copyright Tomas Stargardter
Daniel Ortega at the 30th anniversary of the Nicaraguan Police force. Photos Tomas Stargardter - Copyright Tomas Stargardter
Daniel Ortega at the 30th anniversary of the Nicaraguan Police force. Photos Tomas Stargardter - Copyright Tomas Stargardter
Daniel Ortega at the 30th anniversary of the Nicaraguan Police force. Photos Tomas Stargardter - Copyright Tomas Stargardter
Daniel Ortega at the 30th anniversary of the Nicaraguan Police force. Photos Tomas Stargardter - Copyright Tomas Stargardter
30th anniversary of the Nicaraguan Police force. Photos Tomas Stargardter - Copyright Tomas Stargardter
30th anniversary of the Nicaraguan Police force. Photos Tomas Stargardter - Copyright Tomas Stargardter
30th anniversary of the Nicaraguan Police force. Photos Tomas Stargardter - Copyright Tomas Stargardter
30th anniversary of the Nicaraguan Police force. Photos Tomas Stargardter - Copyright Tomas Stargardter
30th anniversary of the Nicaraguan Police force. Photos Tomas Stargardter - Copyright Tomas Stargardter
30th anniversary of the Nicaraguan Police force. Photos Tomas Stargardter - Copyright Tomas Stargardter
30th anniversary of the Nicaraguan Police force. Photos Tomas Stargardter - Copyright Tomas Stargardter
30th anniversary of the Nicaraguan Police force. Photos Tomas Stargardter - Copyright Tomas Stargardter
30th anniversary of the Nicaraguan Police force. Photos Tomas Stargardter - Copyright Tomas Stargardter
My buddy Oswaldo Rivas (reuters) about to get his head bashed in by a Honduran policeman during yesterdays riots in Tegucigalpa. Oswaldo identified himself to the officer and after a short discussion he was left alone. AFP PHOTO/ Jose CABEZAS
Pro Zelaya supporters streamed into the Nicaraguan town of Ocotal. They were taken in by the local government and stayed for some weeks as refugees. Eventualy they all left back to Honduras. Fotos de Tomas Stargardter - Todos los derechos reservados - Photos Tomas Stargardter - All photos are copyrighted and may not be reproduced withouth permission
Fotos de Tomas Stargardter - Todos los derechos reservados - Photos Tomas Stargardter - All photos are copyrighted and may not be reproduced withouth permission.
A supporter of Zelaya is murdered in the border town of EL Paraiso. The mob is angry and march his body to the army roadblock and accused the government forces of murdering him. In the end the body is taken back to the capital to be buried.
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Fotos de Tomas Stargardter - Todos los derechos reservados - Photos Tomas Stargardter - All photos are copyrighted and may not be reproduced withouth permission
IT has been a while since I posted some images. Things have become very busy for the last month in and out of the paper and it it not untill now that I got to post the images form Honduran President Mel Zelaya in Nicaragua. This is form his second trip to Nicaragua and his first to the border to Las Manos. HE breifly jumped the border line into Honduras and then back to safety on the Nicaraguan side.
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Fotos de Tomas Stargardter - Todos los derechos reservados - Photos Tomas Stargardter - All photos are copyrighted and may not be reproduced withouth permission
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Multicultural. Born in Costa Rica of German father and Colombian mother. Now I live in Nicaragua. I am a graduate of the William Allen White School of Journalism, in Lawrence Kansas, with a BS degree in Photojournalism, and a Masters degree in Image and Communication from Goldsmiths College, University of London. I have worked for AP, AFP, LA NACION in San Jose, Costa Rica, and LA PRENSA here in Managua, Nicaragua. Also I have published my own newspaper an English Language monthly in Managua. I am a history buff. I have taught AP Modern European History in one our local high schools. But photojournalism is my first love and still is.
